Example Sentences

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We can structure metamaterials to efficiently absorb heat without needing to reemit a portion of the absorbed energy toward the source, as a normal material would, enhancing the amount of energy we can harvest.

From Scientific American • Nov. 18, 2022

The surrounding dust grains absorb the ultraviolet light and reemit it in the infrared.

From Scientific American • Nov. 16, 2021

The hope was that the filament would reabsorb the IR photons, which would then reemit some of that energy as visible light.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 11, 2016

The short intense flash can rapidly energize a laser and allow it to reemit the energy in another form.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Broadcast radio frequencies are swept over an appropriate range and nuclei absorb and reemit them only if the nuclei are in a magnetic field with the correct strength.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015